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What is happening in Puerto Rico?
These are some articles about Puerto Ricos' current territory crisis and ongoing economy/housing problems:
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This article was published by the New York Times in 2022
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How FBI spied on over 100.000 Puerto Ricans
A thread on Twitter/X ( Cultural Genocide)
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And always,
Free Puerto Rico.
#free palestine#news from the world#free puerto rico#no one is free until we are all free#colonialism#US
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Never Forget Palestine
I know that this is a long, serious, and sudden post to make after a couple of months of null activity. I normally keep my explicit convictions out of social media circles, but the emotions that the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine has brewed within me is something that I can't keep to myself any longer. As a person who lives in the world's oldest colony, I feel the urgency to express my unshakable and absolute support for the Palestinian people under occupation and their wider diaspora.
As a Puerto Rican, I can somewhat understand the violence that colonialism wreaks upon native peoples. I know what economic violence looks like. I know first hand the pain and dread that displacement brings, the sacrifices that the diaspora undertakes every day, and I've witnessed gentrification efforts in Puerto Rico accelerate astronomically. I know how colonialism erases cultures and warps senses of identity; Americanization and globalization have my culture on a chokehold and I often find myself asking who am I, for I have my own flag, but by law I am a US citizen. And although I was born in the new millennium, my grandparents and parents knew what political and military violence is and have done their due diligence in making me remember the ostracized, the murdered, and disappeared.
As a Puerto Rican, I feel an unshakable sense of gross complicity in the ongoing genocide. I feel this way because our leaders in San Juan and in Washington DC actively support and fund the IDF's genocidal war machine. I feel this way because many of the weapons and munitions that currently maim, kill, and destroy the very livelihood of the Palestinian people were developed and tested in the shores of the municipal island of Vieques, which is located some twenty-odd kilometers from our eastern coast. I feel this way because I read repost after repost of shellshocked Palestinians desperately calling for aid, humanization, and solidarity by showcasing the bodies of their murdered to the world from the comfort of a standing home and relative access to basic resources, and overall experiencing a normal way of life. I feel this way, because the active targeting of journalists and activists, community leaders, and scholars by IDF troops echo the arrests, unfair trails, imprisonment, torture, murder, and disappearance of our leaders orchestrated by evil men like Blanton Winship and Edgar Hoover.
To whoever reads this, please do not forget Palestine. When Puerto Rican Revolutionaries revolted against US colonial rule in 1950, the UN ignored our struggle for independence and looked the other way as US Navy planes bombed the Jayuya to ruins and National Guardsmen arrested and murdered armed revolutionaries and civilians alike all around Puerto Rico. The Gaza Genocide is beyond everything my fellow countrymen have ever faced. Please, for your humanity, do not turn your backs on Palestine just as the world did to us.
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What is community? What does it mean to co-create with communities?
(Pictured above: 1898 U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
I remember my first month in D.C. I felt disoriented, confused and lonely a majority of the time. This was mostly due to the fact that, here, I was no longer surrounded by people that shared something intrinsic about my identity; I felt like I had gone adrift from my community. Community itself is a difficult term to define, according to Crooke it can be “...constructed in a multitude of ways and take a variety of forms” (p. 177). However, I believe a community is a group of people, large or small, that share certain characteristics, interests, geographical location, life experiences, etc. This can include race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age and/or socioeconomic background. People that share the same enthusiasm for a book series can consider themselves to be part of a community. My classmates and I are now a part of the community of students of the Museum Education Program. Forming part of a community should also make individuals feel empowered, a community should lift each other up in times of need, as well as provide a safe space. These are all ideals to strive towards, but the word community can also become a double edged sword. If a community is based on similarities within a group, it is inevitable that a certain antagonism would begin to form towards the outsiders that are different from said group: “Worldwide, there are many examples of the use of the preservation of community identity, heritage, and culture to justify racism and genocide, perhaps the most tragic being the consequence of the use of “community” as justification for fascism in Nazi Germany” (p. 174).
This being said, what I consider to be my community has shifted, or rather expanded with this new change in environment. There are friends who studied with me back in Puerto Rico who are now also studying and living in D.C. which I consider to be my small community of Puerto Ricans. We get together and cook what we loved to eat back home, listen to the music at full blast and talk about our island as if we aren’t over a thousand miles away. But now, because I’m surrounded by so many people that are unlike me, there is also a secret sense of community that I foster towards anyone that comes from Latin America, who gives me even the slightest resemblance of home. The family behind me at the park whose Colombian accents I relish, the server at the restaurant whose parents immigrated from Costa Rica, the Guatemalan woman shopping at the same Goodwill as me, my classmate who was born in Ecuador and who introduced me to Salvadoran pupusas. People that, if I was living in Puerto Rico, would feel wildly different from me, but are my lifeline from feeling incredibly alienated here. In many ways, my experience living in D.C. so far has reaffirmed my identity as not only a Puerto Rican woman, but a Latin American one as well.
Museums being involved within their respective communities is nothing particularly new, as Crooke explains: “The history of European museum development in the nineteenth century links directly to the rise of the nations and the need for those places to claim and present a national past” (p. 174). The difference is that now, museums as an institution are attempting to shift their attention from the predominant white and heteronormative narrative to a more inclusive and diverse one, which directly involves the community in its program and exhibition development. The most effective way to do this is by inviting outsiders in, as Bergeron and Tuttle phrase it. Welcoming cultural or civic leaders, or even the audience itself to “...freely share their resources, expertise and talent…at the early stages of idea development” (p.60).
An example of this could be the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. District Six was a neighborhood that was declared all white under Apartheid, forcibly removing the people that already lived there from their homes, churches and schools, resulting in a traumatic event for those involved. The idea for the District Six Museum was conceived during the 1980’s with the community led program “Hands off District Six” which sought to protect the neighborhood from redevelopment, and in 1994 the museum was established. The museum is unlike the more European institutions found in South Africa: “...the building and space is modest; there are no glass cases; the curator has not taken authority; and the exhibition text is not fixed: former residents may add to the panels while they visit the exhibition” (Crooke, p. 175). Through this museum, the community is finally offered a space in which they can tell their own story in their own terms, to feel like their history is finally being acknowledged, to feel pride at an event that was supposed to make them feel shame; and as a result, the community has become stronger.
Here in D.C. I have yet to find my community represented within museums. There is the National Museum of the American Latino that is starting to take shape, but as of today, it doesn’t occupy a building and it will be many years before the initiative can actually provide a space for Latin Americans. I had an impactful experience at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art exhibition: 1898: US Imperial Visions and Revisions. In said exhibit, the Smithsonian attempts to grapple with the United States’ imperialistic past (and present), but in my opinion, fails to fully grasp the negative aftermath that America inflicted on its colonies. In the section dedicated to Puerto Rico it says: “In general, Puerto Ricans welcomed the change of sovereignty from Spain to the United States in 1898. They hoped for more civil liberties, economic prosperity, and modernization. Later, against the backdrop of the First World War (1914–18), the United States granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans and established a popularly elected senate”. This does not include the fact that Puerto Ricans have fought for our independence for over a hundred years since the United States marched into our shores, and that this fight was met with violent massacres, attempts to suppress our language in schools and the Ley Mordaza (Gag Law) in 1948, which outlawed the display or ownership of the Puerto Rican flag. It also conveniently does not mention that after gaining control of the island, the United States used the Puerto Rican population as guinea pigs for experiments involving birth control, Agent Orange, as well as bombs on the coast of Vieques. Lastly, it mentions the fact that we were granted citizenship during WWI, but omits that the reason why was to send our men on the front lines of the war.
When reading the panel I wondered who wrote it, and for whom. It seemed to me that this was created to provide comfort for Americans who might feel uneasy about their colonial heritage, a way to say: “What we did was bad, but you can feel better now! Pat yourself on the back for recognizing your problematic past in the first place, but don’t take any steps towards actually fixing the problem”. As a museum educator, I want to make sure I’m involving as many voices as I can, so that people from my community don’t feel as angry, and as small, as I felt that day inside of the Smithsonian.
Connect Through Art | District Six Museum
(source: Investec Cape Town Art Fair YouTube)
References:
Bergeron, Anne, and Beth Tuttle. Magnetic : The Art and Science of Engagement. The Aam Press, 2013.
Crooke, Elizabeth, “Museums and Community” A Companion to Museum Studies. Edited by Macdonald, Sharon. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p. 170-185.
“Gallery Page | 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions.” 1898exhibition.si.edu, 2023, 1898exhibition.si.edu/gallery.
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E. The Nation of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans Within the
New Socialist Republic in North America.
Puerto Rico and its people were subjected to brutal conquest and domination–first by the Spanish Conquistadors and
then by U.S. imperialism, forcibly seizing Puerto Rico at the
end of the 19th century–with devastating and even genocidal
consequences for the first inhabitants of the island and then the
enslaving exploitation of others. Through this process, however,
a Puerto Rican nation was forged on that island territory, even as
Puerto Rico itself continued to be held as a colonial possession of
the imperialist United States of America. As a result of the revolution which brought into being the New Socialist Republic in
North America, the hold of U.S. imperialism over Puerto Rico has
been broken, and the New Socialist Republic in North America
recognizes the independence and right of self-determination of
the nation of Puerto Rico. At the same time, the New Socialist
Republic in North America works to develop relations with the
nation of Puerto Rico on the basis of the internationalist orientation
and other principles and objectives set forth in this Constitution,
and remains open to the possibility of a union with the nation of
Puerto Rico, in a larger socialist state, on this basis.
With regard to Puerto Ricans within the territory of the New
Socialist Republic in North America, the principles and policies
that apply to minority nationalities which were oppressed and
discriminated against in the imperialist USA shall be applied,
including the right to the establishment of autonomous areas in
cities and other places where there are significant numbers of
Puerto Ricans.
F. Hawai'i, and Other Formerly Occupied Territories.
Hawai'i, too, was seized from the indigenous people there
by an expanding U.S. imperialism through force as well as deception. In over 100 years of domination, the USA incorporated
Hawai'i into its imperialist state while maintaining it as a major
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military basing area, continually suppressing the native people
and degrading aspects of their culture, and the natural beauty
and wonder of Hawai'i, into capitalist commodities. As a result,
the indigenous people became a minority of the population on
the Hawai'ian islands while, because of these same factors–and
in particular the large presence of the imperialist military in
Hawai'i–there has been a close interconnection between the revolutionary struggle in Hawai'i and in the continental U.S. against
the same imperialist system. With the victory of the revolution
leading to the defeat and dismantling of the imperialist state of
the USA, the New Socialist Republic in North America recognizes
and supports the right of the indigenous people of Hawai'i to selfrule and to play a decisive role in determining the direction of the
society in Hawai'i, while at the same time encouraging and supporting those forces which are striving to take the road of socialism in Hawai'i and to develop the closest possible unity with the
New Socialist Republic in North America, including the possibility of being part of this Republic, on the basis of the principles set
forth in this Constitution.
The same basic orientation and approach shall be applied to
other areas, outside of North America, which were seized by the
imperialist USA and maintained, under its domination, as “territories” of its empire.
G. Where contradictions may arise regarding the territories of
autonomous regions and areas of different nationalities that are
established within the New Socialist Republic in North America,
these contradictions shall be resolved through consultation involving the central government and the nationalities affected, in accordance with the basic principles set forth in this Constitution.
H. Immigrants, Citizenship and Asylum.
Throughout its history and its development into an imperialist power, the United States of America depended on the exploitation, often in extreme conditions, of generations of immigrants,
numbering in the many millions, who were driven to the USA as a
result of oppression, poverty, war and upheaval. These immigrants–
including those from Europe who came to the USA during the latter part of the 19th and the first part of the 20th century, or at least
several generations of them–were also subjected to discrimination
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Oranges and Lemons Day [also 3rd Thursday]
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Avicenna (Positivist; Saint)
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The Day Everyone Says “31” a Lot (Shamanism)
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Festival of Luna (Ancient Rome)
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John Donne (Anglican Communion, Lutheran)
John La Farge (Artology)
Jules Pascin (Artology)
Sacred Drama Day (Ancient Babylonia)
Shabbat HaGadol (Judaism) [10 Nisan]
Survived Another Month Day (Pastafarian)
William Morris Hunt (Artology)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Easter [1st Sunday following the Full Moon that occurs on or just after the Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
Cáisc (Ireland)
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Domingo de Pascuas (Puerto Rico)
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
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Ostern (Germany)
Pascha
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Resurrection Sunday
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Lucky & Unlucky Days
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Premieres
Attack of the Drones (WB Cartoon 2004)
The Boss Baby (Animated Film; 2017)
Brick (Film; 2006)
Cock-A-Doodle Duel (WB Cartoon 2004)
Daredevil Droopy (MGM Cartoon; 1951)
Donald Duck and the Gorilla (Disney Cartoon; 1944)
Dr. No, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1958) [James Bond #6]
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Film; 2023)
Eiffel Tower (Paris Landmark; 1889)
Frankie and Johnny (Film; 1966)
Ghost in the Shell (Film; 2017)
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1945)
Godzilla vs. Kong (Film; 2021)
Goldilocks (TV Special with DePatie-Freleng Animation; 1970)
Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (WB Cartoon 2004)
Heathers (Film; 1989)
Heaven Scent (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
High Fidelity (Film; 2000)
Human Touch, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1992)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Animated Film; 2006)
Johnny B. Goode, by Little Richard (Song; 1958)
The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz (Essay; 1950)
Little Twelvetoes (Multiplication Rock; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
Lucky Town, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1992)
M (Film; 1933)
The Matrix (Film; 1999)
Max Headroom (TV Series; 1987)
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (TV Series; 2020)
Motion Picture Production Code (Self-Censorship Code; 1930)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Authorized by Act of Congress; 1925)
Museum Scream (WB Cartoon 2004)
My Generation G-G-Gap (WB Cartoon 2004)
Oklahoma! (Broadway Musical; 1943)
Phrenology, by The Roots (Album; 2003)
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (Novel; 1836)
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (Film; 1960)
Presence, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1976)
Quackodile Tears (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)
The Road to El Dorado (Animated Film; 2000)
Schoolhouse Rock! Earth (Cartoon Series; 2009)
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1969)
Soldier Boy, by The Shirelles (Song; 1962)
Tank Girl (Film; 1995)
Teacher’s Pest (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls (Novel; 1971)
10 Things I Hate About You (Film; 1999)
13 Reasons Why (TV Series; 2017)
Tramping Tramps (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Today’s Name Days
Benjamin, Cornelia (Austria)
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Kvido (Czech Republic)
Balbina (Denmark)
Härmi, Hermi, Irma, Irmgard, Irmi (Estonia)
Irma, Irmeli (Finland)
Benjamin (France)
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Árpád (Hungary)
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Atvars, Detlavs, Gvido, Staldzis (Latvia)
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Vebjørn, Vegard (Norway)
Amos, Balbina, Beniamin, Dobromira, Gwidon, Kirył, Korneli, Kornelia (Poland)
Denia, Ipatie (Romania)
Maria (Russia)
Benjamín (Slovakia)
Amós, Benjamín (Spain)
Ester (Sweden)
Ames, Amos, Bambi, Thurston (USA)
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Holidays 3.31
Holidays
American Lighthouse Day
American Map Day
Anesthesia Tech Day
Bunsen Burner Day
Buy Some New Socks Day
César Chávez Day
Chemical Industry Workers’ Day (Turkmenistan)
Chucks and Pearls Day
Culture and Traditions Day (Micronesia)
Dance Marathon Day
Day Everyone Says “31” a Lot Day
Day of Chemical Industry Workers (Turkmenistan)
Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis (Azerbaijan)
Day of the Cuban Book (Cuba)
Easter Rising Anniversary Day (Ireland)
Eiffel Tower Day
Foucault’s Pendulum Day
Freedom Day (a.k.a. Jum il-Helsien; Malta)
Geologists Day (Russia)
Hot Guitar Day
Hug a Medievalist Day
International Cleavage Day
International Loki Day
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Just Because Day
King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand)
Marine Weapons Day
Micronesian Culture and Traditions Day (Micronesia)
National Aboriginal Language Day (Canada)
National Backup Day
National Border Control Day
National Crayola Crayon Day
National Farm Workers Day
National Indigenous Languages Day (Canada)
National Jefa Day
National Prom Day
National "She's Funny That Way" Day
National Sunflower Day (Argentina)
National Wear Your Ears Day
Nyepi Day (Day of Silence; Bali, Indonesia)
Periwinkle Day (French Republic)
Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]
Semana Santa, Day 2 (until 4.1; Nicaragua)
She’s Funny That Way Day
Starbucks Day
Terri's Day
Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey)
Vigil to Mourn China’s Annexation of Tibet Day
World Backup Day
World Colorectal Center Prevention Day
World Lipodystrophy Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Day of the Taco (Mexico)
I Drink Therefore I Am Day
National Après Day
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
National Clams on the Half Shell Day
National Cream Cheese Frosting Day
National Macaron Day
National Oysters on the Half Shell Day
National Tater Day
Oranges and Lemons Day [also 3rd Thursday]
5th & Last Sunday in March
European Summer Time begins (EU) [Last Sunday]
International Internet-Free Day [Last Sunday]
National Bible Sunday (Philippines) [Last Sunday]
Neighbor Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]
World Leprosy Day [Last Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 31 (Last Week)
World Hula Week (begins Easter Sunday) [thru 4.6]
Independence & Related Days
Newfoundland and Labrador Province Day (Canada; 1949)
Transfer Day (U.S. Virgin Islands)
Varina (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Varmol (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Festivals Beginning March 31, 2024
Chris Owens French Quarter Easter Parade (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Electric Gardens Festival (New South Wales, Australia)
French Quarter Easter Parade (New Orleans, Louisiana)
New Orleans Gay Easter Parade (New Orleans, Louisiana)
New York City Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival (New York, New York)
Feast Days
Abdas of Susa (Christian; Saint)
Acacias (a.k.a. Achates), Bishop of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 5 (Pagan)
Anesius and companions (Christian; Saint)
Avicenna (Positivist; Saint)
Benjamin (Christian; Saint)
Balbina (Christian; Saint)
The Day Everyone Says “31” a Lot (Shamanism)
Earl (Muppetism)
Festival of Luna (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Luna, Goddess of the Moon (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Guy (a.k.a. Witen), Abbot at Ferrera (Christian; Saint)
John Dillinger Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
John Donne (Anglican Communion, Lutheran)
John La Farge (Artology)
Jules Pascin (Artology)
Sacred Drama Day (Ancient Babylonia)
Shabbat HaGadol (Judaism) [10 Nisan]
Survived Another Month Day (Pastafarian)
William Morris Hunt (Artology)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Easter [1st Sunday following the Full Moon that occurs on or just after the Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
Cáisc (Ireland)
Domingo del Angel (Angel Sunday; Spain)
Domingo de Pascuas (Puerto Rico)
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
1e Pasen (Suriname)
Ostern (Germany)
Pascha
Pashkës Katolike (Albania)
Påskdagen (Sweden)
Paskar (Iceland)
Resurrection Sunday
Uskrs (Croatia)
Zatik
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
Attack of the Drones (WB Cartoon 2004)
The Boss Baby (Animated Film; 2017)
Brick (Film; 2006)
Cock-A-Doodle Duel (WB Cartoon 2004)
Daredevil Droopy (MGM Cartoon; 1951)
Donald Duck and the Gorilla (Disney Cartoon; 1944)
Dr. No, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1958) [James Bond #6]
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Film; 2023)
Eiffel Tower (Paris Landmark; 1889)
Frankie and Johnny (Film; 1966)
Ghost in the Shell (Film; 2017)
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1945)
Godzilla vs. Kong (Film; 2021)
Goldilocks (TV Special with DePatie-Freleng Animation; 1970)
Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (WB Cartoon 2004)
Heathers (Film; 1989)
Heaven Scent (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
High Fidelity (Film; 2000)
Human Touch, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1992)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Animated Film; 2006)
Johnny B. Goode, by Little Richard (Song; 1958)
The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz (Essay; 1950)
Little Twelvetoes (Multiplication Rock; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
Lucky Town, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1992)
M (Film; 1933)
The Matrix (Film; 1999)
Max Headroom (TV Series; 1987)
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (TV Series; 2020)
Motion Picture Production Code (Self-Censorship Code; 1930)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Authorized by Act of Congress; 1925)
Museum Scream (WB Cartoon 2004)
My Generation G-G-Gap (WB Cartoon 2004)
Oklahoma! (Broadway Musical; 1943)
Phrenology, by The Roots (Album; 2003)
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (Novel; 1836)
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (Film; 1960)
Presence, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1976)
Quackodile Tears (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)
The Road to El Dorado (Animated Film; 2000)
Schoolhouse Rock! Earth (Cartoon Series; 2009)
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1969)
Soldier Boy, by The Shirelles (Song; 1962)
Tank Girl (Film; 1995)
Teacher’s Pest (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls (Novel; 1971)
10 Things I Hate About You (Film; 1999)
13 Reasons Why (TV Series; 2017)
Tramping Tramps (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Today’s Name Days
Benjamin, Cornelia (Austria)
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Kvido (Czech Republic)
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Härmi, Hermi, Irma, Irmgard, Irmi (Estonia)
Irma, Irmeli (Finland)
Benjamin (France)
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Atvars, Detlavs, Gvido, Staldzis (Latvia)
Benjaminas, Gina, Ginas, Kornelija (Lithuania)
Vebjørn, Vegard (Norway)
Amos, Balbina, Beniamin, Dobromira, Gwidon, Kirył, Korneli, Kornelia (Poland)
Denia, Ipatie (Romania)
Maria (Russia)
Benjamín (Slovakia)
Amós, Benjamín (Spain)
Ester (Sweden)
Ames, Amos, Bambi, Thurston (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 91 of 2024; 275 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 13 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 22 (Jia-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 21 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 21 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 1 Cyan; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 18 March 2024
Moon: 65%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 7 Archimedes (4th Month) [Hippocrates]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 13 of 92)
Week: Last Week of March
Zodiac: Aries (Day 11 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Cyan (J Calendar) [Month 4 of 12]
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Bitch i aint special i just have the right characterists... iim bold i dont have a problem saying the truth? I can fight with my fists and my mouth/brain, i know about og chistianity from egypt it's literally my culture duhh, i was the only one besides putin reacting and tryinh to avoid the genocide (oh he is forgiven to actually),i was ths only 1 besides putin trying to stop it, i suffered like shit but still gave it back and responded with good stuff while you was always trying to destroy me or "win" the argument(spwcially coz you stull think you have something to teach me) ,i never lied as i know about what rwally happened in the holocaust and revealed it, i ain't wasily bought even in the worst circunstances if you haven't noticed it... also im a gypsy and every missiomary is one. So all you guys was judas trying to get protagonism while i was truing to savs kids.. i don't think this is so hard to grasp it
Oh yaaaa you bitches been attaching nasty ass karma for 2 straight years and didn't even noticed it... like... i ain't sowwy ups
Frz now lez just laugh about the fact they had to put a jewish fag as tokwnism like yah people gonna suppot mass murders because u are gay lol
In fact it might do the eact opposite which is create homophbws maube that's the plan because jews always do those sort of tactics where they seem to suport something just to destroy that symbol
But i don think they are that smart tbh they proved it time and time again also old ticks don't work so much anymore coz you internetzzz
They are tryinh to hide this so much by presenting "a nigga" dressed as a gypsy and a queer jew... wasn't a suprise tho,i said to my black cousins they just gonna find black person and say that tbis black culture and in turn jewish or they will just say that it doesn't look like african culture and that it is just white. The end
Not that im sad for it also they played with me enough in the sense they thought they needed to help yah ho in terms of money but that wouldn't be considered it because i gave so much services already ... anyways my point is, i was right again... as usual
Mike doesn give up on puerto rico... told him a million times that land is full of facists
No lez think bout the fact that jewish people are so delusinal and narcissistic mainly because they mix up history with religion all the time so of course they always gonna be wrong right.. but yah they are so gotsitical they had to do all of this just to highlight their talent which are always gonna be weak coz they never had a reason to specializw on it like you literally have every fucking industry in the world and they even want that. Just look ar seth rollins damn ... a gypsy that is in fact a jewish irish or wtv... wow!
O course this is also about land and resources but hollywood is also that
So i guess this is how they put people poor... with this nasty ass decissions that make no fucking sense o you win big brothwr or make cash for you country? Like thats why you get expelled babes
And yah!! I do slur and curse a lot on purpose!! Their biggest game is to shame into not sluring/cursing people then thsy can just shift it to whover they favour
A slur ain't that serious i swear its never ever that personal unlwss it seems personal... people was able to destroy me and my soul(tried actually) without even sluring me once... so whats the purpose of not syaing it if i can get more hurt with "you are crazy go take meds " than calling me a disgusting gypsy or a cracker?
It was never faks tho i really legit hate you all.. personally speaking
EXPLAIN THIS. THIS AIN'T CUTE!
I did liked her flamenco catharsis thing finally something with taste OMFG! Oh you thought i was just hating??? Nooo it was that bad for fuq sake
I don have to aporve anything i wanted her out of my profile... it was sick!!
She almost destroyed my life and listen this i serious..this is shit that shouldn't be acceptable. Im only alive today because god answered to me.
So as usual it is just bla k representation and jewish shit ... of course i ain't gonna forgive you ever.. you guys can't even pretend that you care this time around lol
So now i have this jewish gay pedo all over my profile talking in baby voice with babies just to convince people that jews are cool... nobody cares about the people that are dying.. jews are more important
Just look at the diferences of lifestyle like yall gotta be joking me
U know whats annoying? They keep showing this shit just make it about them... bitch thw problem got Nothing to do with zionism per say... yess it was because of them this started but it got nothing to do with race.. i caugh an arab twlling me it was just normal to kill people... don frame it on white people ok? It ain't just them.
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This annoys me so much because we have no voice for this bithces to running both sides of the spectrum ans im supposed to be with them when i wqs condemnwd inna nasty guetto just to be framed as the ones who did it... like are u mad asking to accwpt this? I want them all to explode
Look at them turning prwtty quick oh but but shouldn't yoh kiss black peoples feet babes?
So how ain't this racist??? Only black people experience racism... they ain't black ... this doesn't make any sense. But you see when th equation is this you will always lose because it is anti semitic (a term invented by ziomists btw and even anti ziomists use it... btw sómitico means someone that doesn want to share health with people which is rwally funny)
This starts to look a lot like 2nd world war subject mattsr right??? Everybody thought the jews was some poor bastards victims of anti semitism and prejudicw BECAUSE reality was being censored efectivamente
What have i told u since the beginning ?? Jews are nazi they always was they never stopped being and do believe they think they isn't for the most part thats whats scary
I ain't mad coz i knew this moment would come... you try to be the hero and accept everyone and then explodes in your hands because you should never accvept abusers wtf!!!
This is just common sense actually i judaism is just old ass version of a type of islamism that existed before dinosaurs did but it was just studied and implementado later without the natural progression of what is today islamism and chistianism then.... that means they gonna havs old ass mentality which if it monarchic times it's going to be super fascist!
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welcome!
this blog loves planet earth and the people in it.
some notes:
I generally try to identify places + groups
I try to make conscious decisions about tags that respect cultural identities, consider historical context and reject imperialism. I realize this is impossible and messy and doomed to be inconsistent. choices I've made include one Korea, one Ireland, and multiple tags for separatist states, i.e. Scotland, Catalan Countries.
I am currently unsure when or if it makes sense to tag the "bigger" nation in a post about an autonomous region, ex. China and Tibet, Faroe Islands and Denmark. I want to respect widespread independence movements, but also not become bloated with regional tags. Tibet deserves to be free of China but I have to laugh at modern Texas separatism.
Israel does not get a tag. Jewish diaspora, Free Palestine, genocide, USA, and anti imperialism are used.
I am not always sure when to use the indigenous peoples tag. if I am unsure I will probably leave it out.
except the history and prehistory tag, I currently am not tagging things that no longer exist, ex. Soviet Union, Ancient Greece
Some tags like EU, UK, Africa, Asia, Latin American, Polynesian, etc. are used in posts that refer to many places/groups collectively ex. Lunar New Year in Asia
I try to tag the country/group that an artist/writer/creator belongs to, ex. a post featuring Baldwin tagged with USA, literature, black diaspora
tags are ever-evolving
country/place tags:
Africa, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Asia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Catalan Countries, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Emirates, Estonia, Ethiopia, EU, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawai'i, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, free Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, free Tibet, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Papau, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
diaspora + ethnic group + cultural group tags:
Ainu, Apache, Bahá'í, Basque, Black diaspora, Chechen, Choctaw, Chulym, Dakota, Dolgan, Galician, Gavião, Guarani-Kaiowá, Hui, Igbo, immigrants, Inuit, Ixil, Jewish diaspora, Karakalpak, Kashmir, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Lakota, Latin American, Lezgin, Mah Meri, Maka, Makonda, Mohegan, Ojibwe, Pataxo, Polynesian, Q'eqchi', Rapa Nui, Rohingya, Romani, Rukai, Ryukyuan, Sakapultek, Samburu, Sámi, Selkup, Sioux, Tamil, Tatar, Tigray, Tlingit, Tokalau, Uyghur, Yazidi
culture + other tags:
agriculture, airports, animals and wildlife, architecture, art, children, clothing and textiles, dance, ecology and environmentalism, festivals and holidays, film and tv, food, geopolitics, history, infrastructure, language, literature, maps, music, myth and legend, my posts, nature, prehistory, postcards and stamps, public transportation, religions and belief systems, solidarity, sports and games, traditions and customs, true spirit of the blog, urban landscape, water and boats
ugly tags:
acab, anti capitalism, anti imperialism, anti misogyny, anti xenophobia, genocide
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Hamas is playing all of you, lmaoo.. he's using his own people as human shields has be cause war all over the place. But That’s yall friend tho
I think so many folk say something like "It's too complicated" when talking - or not talking -about the middle east/war between Israel & Hamas is because in this country we're socialized to see our issues in black and white, literally. The truth here is far more complicated.
Black people long ago became the 2nd largest minority but you'd never know it because all social advancements, battles, laws, school books, and elections are presented as binary - Black vs. white.
Of course there's a historical uniqueness to being Black in America in that we are the only formerly enslaved people of all the other non-white folk. The only ones needing emancipation, & who are descendants of Africans & white enslavers. Caribbean folk, too, of course.
And our education, pop culture, laws, law enforcement, and all of it are always informed by that history, first, middle, and last. And all other non-white folk bear the secondary consideration in such an unfair way it causes fighting between all the groups.
We know of the devastation of the original peoples on this land, the genocide, the ongoing destruction of lands & broken treaties We know the southwest & all the way to California was Mexico. Those inhabitants were suddenly foreigners on land they've occupied for generations
We know Chinese citizens helped build infrastructure that is still used today. We know construction, farming, & other industries populated by non-white folk contribute to us being able to maintain a standard of living that wouldn't exist with their incredible contributions.
But no matter the complicated facts for hundreds of years, America boils everything to Black vs white. So many are left out because americans crave simplicity over the effort to understand nuance and complexity. We want good to be a white hat & bad to be a black hat.
We want the allies vs. the axis. Avengers vs. Thanos. Everyone vs the Yankees. It is a reason the bros hate women directed movies that explore emotion, grey areas, resolution without the biggest gun (though women movies certain do those well/better, too).
We want a wealthy dummy speaking dumb soundbites over an experienced woman with long thoughtful answers. We want a wealthy dummy who spoke in malapropisms vs an Intelligent Black man/woman who speaks in detail, in nuance, and who can laugh at themselves.
We end up with a population quick to join others struggles because they refuse to join *this nation's struggles. The rapid widespread support for Ukraine is the other side of the coin to the rapid pro-palestine support. Americans refusing to join this nation's struggles.
We have it great, we're number 1, america is the best nation ever, etc." Americans will retort with ferver. We tell ourselves that to absolve ourselves. And to convince ourselves to see past the nuance and embrace the simplicity.
Americans will tell you the entire history of the british monarchy, every shakespeare reference to kings, the history of Ireland and north Ireland, facts about Mr. Darcy, and how their ancestors came on the mayflower, or were half Cherokee, or why plantation weddings are ok.
But ask them about Black history, Mexican American history, the histories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Black farmers, indigenous treaties, or detailed history of American slavery that includes the wealth our folk created.
Ask americans about the mass slaughters, mass rapes, baby killing, breeding, daily violence that done by american slave owners and you'll be quickly shut down, your books banned, your jobs in jeopardy. You never see slave owners listed as "most prolific killers" but they were.
Look at the range of Black folk colors. How did we get these shades of black and brown? We didn't come to these shores my color. And we didn't voluntarily give our our deep beautiful Blackness. It, like our lives, was stolen.
We can speak on the middle east just like we can speak on Ukraine. Or Congo. Sudan. We can say, as I have said since the day Netanyahu tried to derail president Obama w/a misguided speech to congress at the best of racist republicans-that fool needs to go. Hamas needs to go.
Netanyahu needs to go. Hamas needs to go. Palestine needs a state. Israel needs to be safe and as our 80+ year ally, we need to continue to support them, as we do all our allies, like Ukraine, England, Japan, S. Korea, etc. That's not complicated.
America is complicated and we've somehow managed to exist with longstanding racial, ethnic, religious, and ideological differences and disagreements. We understand it because as much as we like to be happy fools, we have to face ourselves daily. It's not Black and white. End.
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Necropolitics
The U.S has a open wound
Instead of scars its walls
Blood is shed in these walls
Walls of hope and pain
About 500 children cross the border per day
Many are not found
The children's parents call
Beyond the wall
While their bodies remain unknown
These children maintain the will to fight and to continue to walk
Through the sonora desert
Through Baja California
Through Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon
Through drowns and heat exhaustion
This year 800 migrants have died alone
To chase after the US dream
Not the american one
America is a continent not the U.S.
Continuing to erase other cultures, countries and stories by labeling the U.S
America, dont forget its turtle island not JUST the U.S.
I honor those who fought for their land
Who fight back against the U.S. interventions
Or did you forget why so many people are trying to cross
This false border that has created a moral panic of terriorism
Through politics such as the 1823: Monroe doctrine and fake fear towards real people that are trying to survive this colonial matrix
Remember the names,
Che Guevera
Pancho Villa
en 1954: Dolores Lebron Sotomayor fought against Puerto Rico's independence from U.S. interventions
Tupac Amaru el seguando fought for his indigenous freedom from the Spanish in peru
En Chile
Salvador Allende que fue un Presidente socialista and the US completed a coup under his presidency
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez who is a political activist as a artists and was assassinated under Pinochet dictatorship that murdered over ten thousand innocents
En Brazil
Marielle Francisco da Silva a politician and human rights activits who was murdered
En Colombia
Lucas Villa who was a student protesting and was shot 8 times
En mexico
Los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos
The United States is an addict
An addict of war
An addict of murder
An addict of power
An addict of destruction
An addict of imperialism
An addict of neocolonialism
cause they fear socialism and the betterment of our globe
Before 1798 there’s been 461 military interventions but the U.S. special operations aren't even counted for the ethnic cleansing towards our indigenous people that occurred in 1492
The past influences the present our so called latinx group denies their own indigenous roots
Due to the spaniard genocide and assimilation towards our ancestors
The military continues this genocide and assimilations towards other international countries through U.S forgein policy
Look at palestine, your U.S. taxes are supporting israelites war and imperialism
Learn the U.S. intervention history, your so called “freedom” is taken from other countries.
This is the Root causes of migration
The US has a responsibility
to provide resources
to stabilize the regions that the U.S. has destabilized so many times and YET
U.S. is
An addict of capitalism
An addict of plutonomy
An addict of production
Ad addict of exploitation
An addict of items
An addict of drugs
An addict of consumption
If you disagree with my statements, explain why products can cross borders but not people?
Explain why private property is more protected than living beings and nature? Why do corporations have more rights than our home called earth? Explain the exploitation that we witness for not fitting in the status quo of whiteness, and for not being wealthy but filthy for being low class or homeless
An addict of hierarchies such as
Class as if the homeless don’t deserve a home, as if those “low-skilled” jobs don't deserve a living wage so they stay below the poverty line
An addict of separations like borders, fences and political spaces
An addict of labels such as Ms, Mr, and she or him or “is your baby a boy or a girl?” or “where are you from?” or “Are you Mexican or middle eastern?”
An addict of enforcing social norms
Such as cisgender heteronormative, gender, race, ableism, sexuality, religion
And european beauty standards which sometimes steals from other cultures
An addict of erasure like
Different cultures, identities, sexualities, and stories
An addict of exclusion
On the disabled,undocumented, black, brown and trans communities
An addict of evidence
An addict of documentations
Because if you have no papers, you are nonexistent to the U.S. and an alien from out of space?
An addict of selfishness
An addict of individuality
An addict of white supremacy
Explain the oppression that we witness for not fitting in the status quo of whiteness
Cause if we ain’t white, its not right
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The Taíno
The Taíno were one of many indigenous peoples of the Caribbean islands. They lived on the islands we now call Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the northern Lesser Antilles. Many people are the descendants of the historical Taíno and still identify as such.
The Taíno and other groups who spoke languages also from the Arawakan language family and developed a unique culture on the islands. They moved up from coastal South America using shore-hopping boats.
Taíno society was divided into two classes: nitaínos (nobles) and naborias (commoners) and were rules by caciques. The ruling was done by males, but Taíno observed a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance. Like many other matrilineal societies, the primary male parental figure was the maternal uncle.
Taíno people often lived in a large, circular communal housing space and slept on hammocks. In fact, they invented hammocks, now a common item and essential on ships. The word barbecue is also a Taíno invention, from the barbacoa style of cooking. Other Taíno words now commonly used in English include kanoa (canoe), tabaco (tobacco), and juracán (hurricane).
An important cultural event was batey, a game using a rubber ball in a rectangular court. They were open to men and women, often used as conflict resolution, and occasionally the subject of wagers and gambling.
The Taíno were the first Americans that Christopher Columbus met on his travels across the Atlantic. He found them to be generous and kind and immediately responded with cultural destruction, violence, and brutal slavery. At the time, the island of Hispaniola alone likely had up to one million people (by some estimates, but even 'safer' estimates say at least half a million). The quick genocide is one of the most brutal and efficient in history, and resulted in multiple armed rebellions by Taíno and sympathetic Spaniards alike.
#history#world history#long post#cw genocide#cw racism#cw columbus#cw christopher columbus#taino#indigenous history#native american history#national native american heritage month#puerto rico#dominican history#haiti#haitian history#jamacian#bahamian
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So... you're supposedly Taino. You do know the Taino culture has been dead since the late 1500s right. And while recent DNA tests have revealed that a large portion of people in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have Taino ancestry, the descendants have only just started piecing together their ancestry? You're literally using the name of a dead culture, that disappeared when Christopher Columbus went to the Western Hemisphere, for pity points. What the actual fuck is wrong with you. Also, how do you even know you're Taino? It requires a DNA test to see if you have Taino ancestry, and DNA tests? Fucking expensive. You would have to buy a DNA test, send it in for testing, have it compared to someone with Taino ancestry, and then get the results back. Again, I repeat, that's really expensive. And as far as I know, this whole "Taino" thing is recent. So what's the truth. Are you actually Taino and spent money (that you supposedly don't have) on a DNA test that's expensive as hell in order to find out, OR did you use the name of a dead people and culture to gain pity points. You're honestly fucking pathetic.
this is a misconception. the entire taino culture is absolutely not dead, and there are multiple sources of people who live within the taino culture to this day including on tumblr if you actually cared to do your research. i do not live in puerto rico or live within their culture, but i am taino which is closely associated but considered separate from puerto rican people. i have made many posts about this before on all of my blogs, as i based one of my old s/i set in a different time on my taino ancestry, and i have explained in multiple posts what the taino people went through when they populated puerto rico and were taken over and almost entirely destroyed by slavery and genocide. i have always known that i had taino ancestry - but since you must know my entire life story, i recently reconnected with my father (who is puerto rican and taino) because he was badly injured and i had to help take care of him for over a month. i had barely any contact with my father for over ten years. during this time i learned so much through him and the rest of my family, my abuelita and my titis and tio, my pipa, my cousins. there is so much about myself and my ancestry i didn’t know because of being kept from my father for so long, and included in that is family in puerto rico who have been born and raised in the taino culture that still exists. again, puerto rican and taino are considered separate racially and culturally - i just happen to be both. i have seen amazing things, photos and stories and old religious valuables that my mima and pipa had kept from long before them from their taino family. unfortunately my pipa very recently passed away. i’m not going to respond with malice towards your disgusting words because clearly you are ignorant and if you are white you have no right to lash out at me like this when you know nothing about me. i included that i am taino in my post because it’s thanksgiving and the taino are native peoples. do you want me to get a dna test and provide it to you? are you going to pay for that? what else in my personal life would you like to have to dig out for keyboard battles online? or do you want me to provide you with sources and reading material about the still existing taino people, since i have to do all the emotional labor for you and suffer under your gross words for it?
#you’re despicable honestly. i don’t know who in their right mind can go after someone#because they don’t believe their race? lmao#ask
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I will say for that last episode of lovecraft country............ white latinos & light mestizos are fucking exhausting.
I don't mean to disparage or denigrate the mixed ndn experience at all or erase how that legitimately does intersect with latin american identities & heritage, hi hello that's me, the Mega-Mix herself, but legitimately being mixed or taking ownership of being indio is different than vanity self-exotification or the political identity of "mestizo"...
this is from monique candelaria's facebook... it's more bankable than just saying she's chicana, but that's what this means, every mexican & their mama, even 100% europeos, will claim aztec identity out of nationalistic pride, and the apache claim is to open doors to other "native american" roles, because apaches & yaquis are on both sides of the us-mexican border because they were obviously there first, before the borders were ever drawn... and I'm not even knocking that as a hustle, actors gotta get work where they can, and I've said it before & I'll say it again that indigenous latinos being treated as if they're not fucking native unless they play those word games when lower 48, canadian, and alaskan natives are treated as interchangeable is deeply fucking weird & morally wrong—
and I'm not in a position, nor do I have the energy or inclination, to sniff out everybody who's indigenous for fun & profit vs who's indigenous as a full time job. and most people who act like they are are just behaving as self appointed gatekeepers of other peoples' culture & blood, and are not welcome to that role or that capacity, either. they're hating from outside the fucking club lol, even if the club & its actual bouncers got their own racially discriminatory issues.
but when folks consume media like this I really do need y'all to consider why somebody who looks like monique candelaria gets cast over somebody who looks like yalitza aparicio or even who looks like any typical black indian caribbean from guyana or puerto rico— because that's who the arawaks were, tainos & lokonos in fucking trinidad and barbados, just like tituba from the salem witch trials, for those of y'all who did the witchy reading for this horror series— to play dress-up as narrative figureheads and visual, physical stand-ins for peoples' entire racial identities and whole tragedy porn genocidal experiences.
look at monique candelaria's face, and if that's not the face you would imagine if you were thinking up native venezuelans or your mental image of puerto ricans, ask yourself why you're expected to view that actress as arawak now in 2020 just because hbo told you to.
it's not personal against her, it's not even anything against lightbrites like that (once again, hello)... I'm just out of patience, and I am so tired.
#i'll tag this in the morning smh but that really...#the moment fucking died for me i am just so SO tired#yes white looking ndns are in the struggle too#but this is like the equivalent of zoe kravitz playing storm...#it's not an appropriate casting decision nor an accurate representation of character race.#and the way ppl wanna victoria justice ''i think WE'RE ALL indigenous'' the conversation every time this comes up...#disingenuous & a perfect example of how ppl wickedly uphold white supremacy while the call is coming ftom inside the house.#ANYWAY!!!!!!!!#lovecraft country#spoilers //
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Cancel culture
I’m so upset right now. I’m gonna try to put my thoughts in a coherent form but I’m afraid I won’t be completely capable.
This is about cancel culture and about how unhealthy and toxic it is both in the realm of cancelling people and cancelling works of fiction.
This is about in particular two situations that triggered this reaction on me that I consider both really dangerous, and though both probably came from an initial place of worry and accountability what they both achieved was the opposite.
I also come to tumblr, where probably almost no one will read me, but where I know cancel culture it’s more in hype. This is why I want this text to be on my blog, for anyone that follows me and anyone that might come after to see.
I’ll start with the problem of cancelling fiction. Because there’s a difference between being critic and wanting something to disappear from the face of the earth and fall into oblivion. You might think I’m exaggerating or using hyperbole to establish an argument, but I’m not. Cancel culture fueled by rage doesn’t look for reparation, doesn’t look for growth, doesn’t look for real accountability it looks to burn and destroy. Cancel culture it’s fueled by shame because those who foment it cannot stand something problematic to exist, but even worse cannot stand that to exist within them. Now tell me, how is this not close to burning books, something most conservative cultures have done several times when disagreeing with a particular posture or when fearful of the reaches of fiction to critical and open minded thinking.
Fiction is not there to paint you pretty worlds in which every single character it’s perfect for you, fiction it’s not there to be morally acceptable to you, fiction is not there to rewrite history and tell you an unproblematic version of it. Fiction is there to be read critically, to be interpreted, to be questioned and to question as well, that’s why it is highly feared by dictatorships and extreme governments. You read something (and by this I mean book, tv show, movie, audio, ANY type of fiction that its read when its interpreted) and you can point its flaws, see its blind spots, learn from its characters and then maybe get inspired and write something that speaks more closely to you. What cancel culture does, though, is not even read it critically, but just throw it to the fire pit and watch it burn while warning anyone else to not ever read it again, not form your own opinions, not create new critics, NOT held it accountable, because how can someone hold something accountable without having the chance of reading it? No, just ignore it, forget it, burn it, because it’s problematic.
My example for this is Hamilton. I’ve been hearing for ages that it has become problematic and thus it should be canceled, but until now I haven’t been able to reach the arguments behind it. But of course with the whole release from Disney everything exploded, and by everything I mean a weird mixture between the people that want to cancel Lin Manuel Miranda and the ones that want to cancel Hamilton, and the ones that mix both and conclude the best way of doing it it’s canceling Hamilton first. For the sake of this argument I will focus only in the canceling of Hamilton which gets based in four principal arguments: 1. It portrays as main characters problematic people who were real life slavers, and shows them instead as the heroes founding fathers of the USA, without addressing their problems one by one. 2. Lin Manuel Miranda’s relationship with Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico’s policies and the way he brought Hamilton to Puerto Rico. 3. Some well done critical articles that don’t cancel either, but rather present what happened and what both Lin Manuel Miranda and Hamilton should be held accountable critically, but instead are used to cancel both of them. 4. The fact that Alexander Hamilton, the real figure, it’s portrayed free of charge of also engaging in problematic behaviors specially those related to slavery and the creation of banks and kind of the capitalist culture of the US.
Now, in the sake of criticism and holding things accountable but NOT cancelling them, let’s address each one by one: 1. Hamilton its based in real people that were problematic, and slavers and racist, BUT that also coincidentally fought for the independence of the US and were the founding fathers, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You can cancel them and want to forget they existed but the truth is that the US it’s what it is because of them and their actions, and actually most of today’s issues with race and capitalism are because of that history, and until we all accept the US comes from that we wont be able to change it and move on, REMEMBERING were it came from. Believe me, being a person of color that comes from colonialism and that had to come to the hard truth that I am what I am because of the people that came and killed and raped and stole, and that I even carry part of their blood because most latin American population is mixed race, and that just is what it is, I understand how hard but necessary this process is. Do I think Christopher Colombus should be praised each year and celebrated in statues all across the world? HELL NO, do I think we should all kill him in our memories forever and cancel him? HELL NO, because I come from that, it’s part of who I am, and I’ll remember him, but holding him accountable for the genocide and exploitation of the land and people of America, and for in the end forming part of the mixed race I belong to. Denying or canceling this or him would be canceling a part of myself that I HAVE TO LIVE WITH FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. So, yes. The founding fathers were problematic, hell yeah, they were racist as well, but the musical Hamilton addresses this in some ways that the story Lin Manuel Miranda is trying to tell allows, without only focusing on it because that’s one of its flaws we have to hold the musical accountable for even if its out of the reach of the musical. What the musical actually DOES is that it casts people of color in their roles as a criticism and a way of saying that the US of now is not the white US they were trying to make back then, and that the power should shift, and OF COURSE he is criticizing slavery not only by the verses in the Cabinet Battle that everyone seemed to conveniently forget, but also in this subversion of casting and the way he decided to tell this very traditional part of history through RAP, a genre that comes and its largely belonging to black culture. This is actually a clever way of holding a history you cannot change, accountable for its previous violences, and also calling out current violences that people will only come to notice by watching the musical and questioning themselves about why they expect other cast, music and history, and that’s all in the nuances you can only get from READING through it.
While we are at it let’s address point 4: I don’t know which musical these people has been seeing but Hamilton is hardly a saint, neither presented as one, in the musical, he is a tragic character at best, he has a lot of qualities but these same qualities are the ones that condemn him to disgrace and ultimately early death. But he is mostly shown as a human, and I honestly don’t know in which part of cancel culture “human” started being equivalent to pure and free of charge but that’s far from it. Human means conscious, capable of mistakes and capable of causing hurt, but also capable of growing and reparation that heals oneself and others. Do I wished the musical would have been more critical of the way Hamilton introduced a capitalist culture as the best one and the way he criticized slavery but did nothing about it personally... yes, but the only way I can make this criticism and hold it accountable is because I watch and listened to it, took the good and identified the bad, and recognized both.
The second and third point have absolutely nothing to do with the musical whatsoever, but with its creator and the poor interpretation of proper criticism. And thus is that what should be held accountable, Lin Manuel Miranda as a person, and the situations that happened related to him and his decisions. Now, about the link of profit and “supporting” Hamilton, by all means don’t do this if you think him and the people involved (because a musical it’s never done by just one person), doesn’t deserve it. I, for one, I’m certain that Disney does not need or deserve a single dollar more, they are quite rich already. But not watching Hamilton when its eventually published in Disney + is miles away from erasing Hamilton from existing, not listening to its songs and forgetting about it because it is problematic. These last things are the equivalent of burning it, and I recommend listening to the song Burn from the same musical to learn about what fire does to words.
Now, the problem of cancelling people. If in fiction cancelling it’s equivalent to burning books in human beings its equivalent to murder, and I’m not exaggerating here either, because it is. And again here there’s a difference between holding people accountable for their mistakes and just erasing them from the face of the earth because they fucked up. And here the same problem as before stands, if you cancel them you are also taking away the opportunity of holding them accountable, because if there’s no one there to listen, then why would they even bother saying sorry and trying to fix their wrongs. Basically, cancelling people not only murders them but also gives them a free pass to be someone else and not repair those they hurt with their problematic behavior before. Like, what the fuck do you think happens in peace treaties after wars and process of reparation and restitution are in place? THE OPPOSITE OF CANCEL CULTURE. In reparation processes after a lot of violence has been done to victims, the process is to listen and hear words of repentance, that help victims heal and forgive, so BOTH parts can continue living a better life. Because turns out in the end we are all human beings that want to live and continue to live and we only get ONE life to do so, and if you take the chance for a person to live their lives, then how is that not taking also their lives away? How is not giving the possibility of growth and forgiveness not burning them alive, as if you get to choose over their future??
My example for this case is Jenna Marbles, and how ridiculous and upsetting is that people really wanted to cancel her from mistakes she made AGES ago, that she clearly grew from, as it’s evident from the person she is now and her everyday current actions, and also from the way she is clearly ashamed and upset about it, as it’s clear from the fact she had private the offensive videos so people didn’t reach them and get hurt by them. Jenna is a human being, that’s also clearly hurt by what she did but mostly from the fact that no matter what you do, how you repair, how you grow, the internet is fixated in letting you drown in your mistakes forever, and I’m sorry but how is that not killing someone and not letting them live their life to be a better person? How is that not as problematic as the so judged original behaviors?
In the end I just want for all of us to stop being so hypocritical at aiming judgements and cancelations at everyone else before looking at ourselves, our own violences and problems and understanding if we could grow and be critical of them to continue living, then so can others.
How about we let them do so.
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How should the new findings change the way we think about the fate of Indigenous people in the pre-contact Caribbean? In some ways, not at all. Whatever the starting population, what happened to Indigenous Americans after Europeans arrived amounted to genocide: the systematic obliteration not just of individuals but also of their culture and community — what the philosopher Claudia Card called the “social death” at “the center of genocide.”
Even if you focus more narrowly on statistics, the numbers of deaths in both absolute and relative terms are horrific. According to a 1540 census, the number of Indigenous people in Hispaniola had dropped to 250 people. It dropped to zero in later counts.
In other ways, however, ancient DNA research significantly changes how we think about Indigenous people in the pre-contact Caribbean. Another surprising finding, for instance, is that the genetic legacy of pre-contact Caribbean people did not disappear: They contributed an estimated 14 percent of the DNA of living people from Puerto Rico, 6 percent of that in the Dominican Republic and 4 percent of that in Cuba. In addition, by illuminating the highly mobile lifestyle of pre-contact Caribbean people with many DNA cousins across different islands, the research underscores the degree to which they were connected — a relative unity later fractured by centuries of division into colonial spheres by European powers.
Colonization resulted in such immense destruction that the rich cultures of the pre-contact Caribbean can be reconstructed only through a blend of oral traditions and scientific study, including the new insights provided by ancient DNA analysis. It is a blessing to be able to get closer to this heritage. And it is the loss of the people and cultures that produced this heritage that most provokes our outrage.
We should never be afraid of new data. We can only grow from encountering new truths, even when it challenges old ones. No doubt this conclusion positing a smaller-than-assumed pre-contact Taino population will itself be subject to vigorous debate, correction, and refinement. That is all a good thing.
It is up to us what ethical lessons we are to draw from new learning. It is our decision whether or not to minimize the Taino and Carib genocides should the numbers of deaths be proved lower. Those who do so have not the facts to blame, but their own moral compasses. Suppressing this information for fear that it might be misused leads to politically correct pseudoscience, brittle orthodoxies and narratives vulnerable to dispute.
Regardless, the Caribbean was not a vacuum domicilium, a land without a people. There were peoples, cultures, and civilizations wiped out by European colonization - peoples who, despite their limited numbers and resources had spread and established themselves over a broad maritime expanse. The better we can focus our lens on what their lives were really like, however that looks, the more respect and homage we do them.
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On Voting
While things are still too early to 100% call for who the nominee will be, remember, There are way too many people, often at the bottom of the social food chain that don't have the luxury to not vote and throw pity parties.
No matter how upset I am, this (and all elections) is about saving lives and reversing major damage we can't afford 4 more years of. The most vulnerable minorities are always the most affected (The disabled, POC, Queer & Trans ppl, Immigrants). As one of my friends said, if you feel too mad to vote for yourself in the Nov election vote for someone else who can't. Like POC charged with absurd felonies and trapped in the prison system, and the human beings in border concentration camps who are dying while cameras are off. Someone said voting is like getting on a bus. Even if I can't get directly to my destination I take the one that will take me closest, I don't go in the opposite fucking direction.
I remember last election so many of us told people who said they wouldn't vote, "people will die" but they wouldn't listen because it didn't affect them. 4 years later, hundreds of environmental & animal regulations & protections previously in place are gone, workers' rights & assistance programs are being dismantled, families were ripped apart and deported, the affordable care act keeps getting gutted, the lack of aid for Puerto Rico killed hundreds of people, the lack of assistance with the California fire recovery left people hurting, nazis felt emboldened to march unhindered in Charlottesville and chant 'Jews will not replace us' whilst holding flaming torches, and we have concentration camps and cages children have died in, and he already tried to start a war. Now we're saying it again.
[here’s a comprehensive list of most rollbacks that have occurred: https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/ ]
Help lift up the most vulnerable, more people will die, don't be complicit, we're fucking begging you because we don't have a choice to ignore it.
I think another reason why it's so hard for Democrats to unite historically is because we're the diverse party. We have Women, POC, women who are POC, everyone under the queer spectrum LGBTQIA+, different religions and cultural backgrounds, disabilities, etc. etc. There's so much to do and so much that we're rallying for that it's going to be virtually impossible to find a "perfect" candidate that everyone loves. Which is all the more reason why we do need to unite. We can't afford to let whatever minor differences and hang ups we have clear the way for rhetoric that's sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and enforcing of church on the state, etc. to waltz through. It's much easier to draw together over what you hate when rhetoric is similar (i.e. people rallying for muslim travel bans, pro gun, anti-choice, and legislation against LGBTQ+ ppl) that what we all have in common. So please do the right thing and vote for whoever is nominated for the Democratic party.
Also don't forget y'all, 2 years ago we got the most women and LGBT people elected at once on record and took back the house! This year we can take back the senate, and more and more each year ppl are supporting progressive ideas and WOC in leadership positions. Don't act like democracy is dead, things are coming up Milhouse if you fucking participate!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I remember how Bush got elected when I was a kid. The votes were too close and it came down to florida (with their rigged voting machines) People weren't excited for Gore or Kerry and didn’t vote, so instead of getting a guy (both who believed in Climate change 20 years back and human rights) who was remotely decent, we got a huge war, big oil, genocide in the middle east, massive hate crime spikes and widespread propaganda of Islamophobia (the aftermath we STILL see to this day), prison systems grew, the housing market crashed & people died from lack of action in Katrina, and lots more. IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME.
WE COULD BE HAVING AN OK OR EVEN GREAT TIME BUT Y'ALL PLAYIN'.
A thought: Maybe we'd be where we want to be right now if people hadn't fucked around in the Bush elections and been so luke warm and ‘ho-hum’. That's why we're asking people not to fuck around this time just like we asked last time 4 years ago. We could’ve always been in a better place. We owe it to ourselves, the kids who can’t yet vote, and the people who’ve died in this past administration to pull fucking the brakes so we can start rebuilding.
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